Life as a family of four

I hate being right

Today’s appointments seemed a bit like a waste of time. Apart from the fact that McBean still hasn’t engaged at all, his heart rate was monitored (all good) and the levels of amniotic fluid were also checked by ultrasound (apparently excellent), not much information was given.

The fairly useless doctor basically said, ‘well, you have some explaining to do’; and then ‘when do you want to schedule the induction’. That said, he was not pushing for us to do it any time soon, and was very clear that it was not preferable, and that there are many risks involved. As if we weren’t already aware of that!

We could have chosen a Friday appointment, which would have been far more sensible logistically with FenFox and other stuff, but we wanted to give McBean every possible opportunity to come out on his own terms.

So the verdict is that I’m healthy, McBean is healthy, there is no reason why I shouldn’t spontaneously go into labour over the next few days. The hospital prefers to have inductions scheduled by 2 weeks after the due date, but doesn’t push for them.

I have to go back for monitoring again Saturday morning to make sure that all is still good.

Five more nights.

Guess what I got in my email inbox yesterday? An email entitled ‘Your Baby at One Week’. I was so not happy to see that.

yuck… you know i was thinking yesterday that they kept adjusting your due date at the very beginning… maybe the original due date was the correct one all along. regardless, I’ll be wishing that mcbean gets a move on and decides to come out on his own. But!! Either way you will have a baby on Monday and you need to focus on that fact.

Awh, I’m sorry Clark. Maybe McBean will decide to come on his own before Monday. Fingers crossed! But, like Sarah said, you’ll have a baby by Monday….I’m so excited for you guys and will be keeping you in my thoughts!! xo